Saw two stationary lights in the southeastern sky for about 1.5 minutes very brilliant light and then faded away

At 1945 hrs i was out looking out of telescope and out of the corner of my eye saw a couple bright lights appear in the southeastern sky.

The lights were about 10 degrees apart and 40 degrees high.

I watched them for about a minute and they were completely stationary and were at a great distance and got to a brilliant bright white light then after about 45 seconds started to fade and were gone after about a minute.